Kathleen Winsor Quotes

Try to keep the rebel artist alive in you, no matter how attractive or exhausting the temptation.

I feel like the point of being an artist is to have your own voice: to do it the way you would do it and not the way anyone else would do it. If you're a strong enough writer, then that voice is going to come out all the time, and I can't stop it from coming out, no matter what I do.

I'm very selfish. I make music that I love because I only live once, and I'm an artist. I don't try to revolt against anybody, and I don't try to please anybody. I feel very strongly that I if love it, someone else will love it - not everybody, though.

There's such a freedom about being an artist... You're not accountable - you're this renegade thing.

Good or bad, the one thing I can say about my art is, if I can quote Sinatra, I did it my way.

I never pigeonholed myself - the only reason you'd want to pigeonhole is to monetize your business and, as a person, I don't see the importance of doing that. My music took off above the rest of those things: You can just make a song, put it on a CD, and get it out to all these people.

It does not matter how badly you paint so long as you don't paint badly like other people.

I don't like being put in a box. I just make music, you know?

I'm just an artist and I'm doin' what I like to do.

I am not concerned with truth, nor with conventional notions of what is beautiful.

Most artists like to think of themselves as rugged individualists, as independent characters.

All artists are now free to express their own personality.

In school, I learned about artists and how they were free to express themselves. I was allergic to conformity, and the lifestyle attracted me. I wanted to express myself in a way that slammed people up against the wall.

Anyone who sees and paints a sky green and fields blue ought to be sterilized.

I like art. It's another way to rebel.

I'm a creative person, and I'm gonna be creative, so whoever's upset because of that, that's too bad.

I love this freedom that has been given to me as an artist to express myself.

I think people have come to know that I am not comfortable in a box, you know, and that I love music.

I think I'm just doing me, my music, my shows, and my stories.

People might look at you a bit funny, but it's okay. Artists are allowed to be a bit different.

There are five things that societies do: They reproduce; they produce food; they organize themselves in terms of law; they organize themselves in terms of belief; and they make art. Four of them are about conformity, and in these, everything would go more smoothly if people just would shut up and do what they're told. But in art it doesn't work that way.

Basically I just had to say, 'Screw everyone around me - from now on I'm just gonna play what I think is important to me and our music.' So I gave the big finger to all the current trends in technical wizardry, and just went off and did what I felt was best for the songs.

In a moment when criticism shows a singular dearth of direction every man has to be a law unto himself in matters of theatre, writing, and painting. While the American Mercury and the new Ford continue to spread a thin varnish of Ritz over the whole United States there is a certain virtue in being unfashionable.

I decided I was a very stupid fool not to at least paint as I wanted to.

Don't worry about trying to develop a style. Style is what you can't help doing. If you write enough, you draw enough, you'll have a style, whether you want it or not. Don't worry about whether you're "commercial". Tell your own stories, draw your own pictures. Let other people follow you.